Amanda Christine as Ronnie Grogan
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Ep. 106: "In the Name of the Father"
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leo tanaka in 2019:
you actually had to be there that day in 2019 when that episode aired. i literally thought the entire fandom were going to kill him.
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Will telling his father that he’s not like him because he would never leave his friends to die and then telling Hank & Ronnie that he won’t allow anything to happen to them while he’s around. God, this level of foreshadowing… Oh, it’s going to be BAD! :(
For all the people who keep going on about Ronnie’s character and how it’s unrealistic for a Black teenage girl in 1960s America to have this view of the world and believe that the police would actually release her father if they knew he was innocent…
This is what her grandmother said about her in Ep2:
Regardless of whether or not this is accurate or simply how her grandmother views the situation, the show literally stated that Ronnie has the mindset she does of the world for a reason. That she doesn’t view the world the same way that others do for a reason.
It’s also something that actually does make a lot of sense when it comes to really looking at Ronnie’s character.
Let me see if I have this straight.
Rich was established as liking Marge in Ep2 & Ep3.
Will was established as liking Ronnie in both Ep3 & Ep4.
We saw little moments between Rich/Marge and Will/Ronnie in Ep5.
Then in Ep6, you have Will comforting Ronnie when she’s upset, her hugging him in response and the two of them sharing a moment together, being there when she’s reunited with her dad and even having a sweet scene with Ronnie & her dad when he promises to protect both of them. You also have Rich helping Marge with her bandages, eating lunch together and talking about hearing voices in the pipes, getting drunk at the Black Spot and then Marge watching Rich playing the drums in awe.
They’ve both literally had the exact same amount of build up to this point where Ronnie & Marge care for Will & Rich, actually, Will/Ronnie has had even more build up as we saw from the ending of Ep3 that Ronnie cared about Will and yet, Marge/Rich is seen as having this sweet, realistic build up where you can fully understand how it’s reached the point of them liking/caring about each other but, Will/Ronnie is just too unbelievable, totally random, doesn’t make sense, is forced heterosexuality (wtf?) and as coming completely out of nowhere.
It’s quite interesting, isn’t it?
It’s also very noticeable that Will/Ronnie are just held to much higher standards.
The amount of posts/videos I’ve seen where people are like “If Hank wasn’t with Ingrid when those kids were killed than none of this would even be happening and everyone, including those at the Black Spot would be safe. It’s all his fault.” like, I’m sorry, did you all just forget that Hank was the prime suspect in Matty’s disappearance, that Ronnie states the police wouldn’t leave him alone because they thought he was responsible? Or that, I don’t know, there were a whole scene with a bunch of racist white guys talking about finding a way to pin the death of those kids on Hank and that they didn’t care if he had an alibi? The show has made it abundantly clear that Hank was going to get the blame and be charged with those four murders in one way or another. It wouldn’t have mattered if he was with Ingrid, out walking by himself or actually at home. They were determined to blame him for this. How is that not evident?